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New France Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Provided spiritual and moral guidance and founded schools hospitals and orphanages
      - Also played an open and active role in governing the colony
      - Represented the catholic church
  - - - Worked to keep thr colony in good order
    - - Kept his eye out for new ways to exploit the colony for the benefit of France.
    - - The chief administrator of the colony
  - - - Reprensented the king
    - - Controlled the military and looked after. The defence of the coloney.
- - - - Many seigneurs were men from noble families but women and commoners could also become seigneurs
- - - - The merchants sold there furs to France where they sold them for a profit
        
        Some of the merchants shops included blacksmiths, shoemakers, masons bakers and butchers
        
        Many merchants made their livings in the fur trade.
    - - the coureur worked independently for themselves
        
        coureur de bois means runner of the woods.
        
        independent trading became ilegal but the coureurs did not stop and sold furs wherever they could
    - - They trades with the merchants of Montreal and the fur trade posts of the great lakes and eventually further west
        
        voyageurs means traveler and were men from France how traveled between fur trades